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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: 4 Mar 1997 11:40:25 GMT
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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Marco S Hyman <marc@dumbcat.codewright.com> wrote:

> Any vi will let you do that.  My ~/.exrc contains:
> 
> 	" map vt100 arrow keys in insert mode
> 	map! ^[OA ^[ka
> 	map! ^[OB ^[ja
> 	map! ^[OD ^[ha
> 	map! ^[OC ^[la
> 
> It's trivial to add page up/down and function keys.

But that's a crock, and totally contradictionary to the remaining
philosophy behind Unix ``Everything is expressed by your $TERM
variable.''  You simply can't compare this crock with a correct
implementation of the problem.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j